As adults, and especially as business people, we often have a tendency to over-complicate our lives: business is notorious for this with its relentless commitment to an ever growing array of acronyms, methodologies and processes – and most of us are guilty of embracing them, often in a vain attempt to ‘big ourselves up’.

However, this pandemic is forcing many of us – some unfortunately through necessity and some via the luxury of the extra time they now have - to seriously re-evaluate what is actually important to us; what we genuinely need in our lives – what adds to it, not takes from it.

This week,  Paul Spiers, host of The New P&L – Principles and Leadership in Business podcast series, discusses how a random conversation with his son inspired him to stop and think about why we seem to consistently try and make the simple more complex.